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A lot of people have hopes that Israel or at least its allies might be swayed by appeals to human rights. Nobody realistically hopes that when it comes to Iran, Saudi Arabia or Yemen. Countries where citizens are killed by state actors for tweets or dressing inappropriately.

I do consider season 11+ heretical.

It is Treehouse of Horror day!

According the German news source the Israelis identified the skull of Shani Louk a German/Israeli citizen who was paraded naked shortly after the attacks. A lot of pro-Palestinian sources claimed she was still alive and that they transported her to a hospital. Instead it looks like she was beheaded(likely posthumous). The mother understandable believed the lies of the pro-Palestinian sources. Edit: The beading detail comes from an interview of the president of Israel with the German tabloid Bild.

That's why such an exchange will only escalate hostilities I feel unlike what many other seem to believe. Israel can only do that without sending the wrong message if they at least attempt to destroy all Hamas forces in Gaza afterwards.

The Israeli government seems rather uninterested in getting the hostages back. I mean they can exchange the hostages for prisoners and attack again with full force as soon as ceasefire is broken by a missile launch which will probably not even take a day when you look at the past.

The dream of righteously killing people is pretty standard among gun fetishists. It does not take that much to push that dream into unlawful territory I feel as the value of other people's lives is already pretty low in their minds.

It is not as extreme as it looks. The SVP actually got more votes in 2015, lost 3,8% in 2019 and gained 3,0 % now. The greens are the only party that really lost significantly and they still got more than 2015 when the SVP peaked last.

I'm enjoying the new episodes of Fraiser so far. I hope that at least some guests show up though. I have also reached season 7 of Cheers. The rest of Sabrina the Teenage Witch has dropped on Paramount+ here and I'm enjoying that too. The Salam puppets are very amusing.

You don't want your kids to fall in with a terrible crowd and end up in law enforcement!

It is not just growing numbers though but a population growth rate among the highest on the entire planet. Other numbers like life expectancy are comparable than some US states. I guess there is a case to be made for wealth inequality in the US being a genocide. Edit: Misremembered something. I guess COVID actually dropped the life expectancy in some states even lower than I remembered. Male life exactly in Mississippi has dropped below 70 years? That is actually significantly below Gaza and the West Bank.

Is a 17 year old coming home wasted a problem? A honest question because I'm from rural Austria and that would be completely normal if it only involved alcohol.

I'm not what you would call an optimist and every increasing ghettoization is probably what will happen in the West Bank. It has nothing to do with what I want. Personally I would prefer that Israel withdraws its citizens from the West Bank as I feel that would most likely lead to less suffering overall(utilitarianism I guess). However I don't think such a withdrawal would benefit Israel itself. In the long term things in the area will probably get much worse even if this conflict is somehow resolved as the region only functions because of massive depletion of groundwater reserves and desalination plants. But that is the doomer in me speaking.

But the opposite happened. Israel abandoned territory and the result was more missile attacks than ever before and it allowed Hamas to build up enough forces for the attack that started the current flare-up of hostilities. In the other hand the West Bank is easy to control in comparison. What would Israel gain by acting against its own citizens in the West Bank? Less ability to contain and strike its enemies and more internal strife in my opinion but not much else.

In Gaza they acted with force against settlers and people protesting the abandonment of settlements. As I said it only gained them negative things. Why act against those groups again? To create another uncontrollable hostile territory? Allowing them to do their thing is the most rational approach in my opinion.

I'm only trying to explain the reasons why Israel has mostly stopped trying to use force against international fascist groups. They did in the past and it has only harmed Israel. It is not rational to do it again. I'm not saying it is not immoral.

Because the Israeli government gained nothing by acting against the fascist groups amongst it's people when abandoning Gaza. They won't repeat that mistake that only harmed its own citizens in the long term.

I actually see it differently. The result of abandoning Gaza which involved immediate desecration of synagogues as soon as the Israelis were gone and Gaza becoming a difficult to assault lunch platform for missile attacks and now raids is what made any plans of abandoning the West Bank completely impossible because it is only logical to assume the same would happen there.

Comparing the two areas is dishonest though. The last Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip were evacuated in 2005. There was even some resistance but the IDF and the police overcame it. Israel would probably give it to Egypt if they actually wanted it.

They knew that people would use that spell for Shadowheart focused content I guess.

Vienna is the only city with a high enough population that it can effectively resist the influence of the rural conservatives. It also helps that it is a city-state just like Hamburg. All other cities have for less control because there is a regional goverment above it and not just the federal goverment. The sad thing is that my state which is kinda the Texas of Austria is still left of Bavaria. Bavaria outside of Munich or Nuremberg is sometimes shocking even for someone who grew up in rural Austria near the border. During the recent elections in Bavaria adverts by the Greens were routinely destroyed while to right and far right parties co-exist without problems. An anti-semitism scandal shortly before the election actually gained one of the parties votes. The hatred for people who want to protect the environment and animals seems to have grown exponentially in the last two years in Germany and Austria. Best of luck in Germany.

Probably a good choice indeed. Polls look pretty shit right now unless you want a right/far right government and elections are next year. Open racism has massively grown since 2015 as has the pushback against "woke" politics. Hatred against people who want to protect the environment and animals too. Conservative ruled states have started making abortion more difficult too. It is not looking good to be honest. It's a great corner of Germany to avoid the far right too I feel(unlike Bavaria or the new states). On top of that it is a city state which means no large rural population which reduces right wing support even further.

I feel the debate in the public is already over unless one side admits that it is at fault. However who the USA will assign blame to officially is certainly very important. Russia probably hopes to learn how high the resolution of US satellite imagery is right now. It's a while since Trump leaked up to date info.

Austria is adding border controls for the Czech Republic. We already had border controls for Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary. Won't be surprised if all borders apart from Germany will get that treatment soon. Next to nobody in Austria is going to complain as the generell consensus seems to be that Schengen is de facto a failed concept. The most refugee friendly party is part of the government that is introducing those controls. Germany has border controls on the Austrian border since 2015 and is adding border controls for Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. Edit: Our far right party is currently leading in polls and the topic of young male asylum seekers from muslim countries is one of the things that keeps the support of that party growing.

Those countries tried destroying Israel when it was much weaker. They failed. What else can they do? The outcry might hurt trade of course. Apart from that they seem irrelevant apart from offering terrorist groups refugee which they are doing anyway(either voluntarily or involuntarily because they don't control parts of their own territory). Have there been any successful attacks against the US Navy since the USS Cole 23 years ago? Netanyahu kinda failed because he did allow outside factions to support Gaza and Hamas. I don't find it likely that any government in the near future will make the same mistake.